Overview

• Participants spent one hour hurling 120,000 kilos of inedible tomatoes through Buñol’s streets in the festival’s 78th edition.
• Organizers sourced the tomatoes from Alius Trading in Don Benito, delivering the loads in seven trucks for the morning battle.
• Around 400 personnel, including Protección Civil and state security forces, managed safety and crowd control throughout the celebration.
• Local officials framed the 'Tomaterapia' theme as a lift for community morale after last year’s DANA floods, according to mayor Virginia Sanz.
• Coverage reported strong international turnout with tourists from more than 20 countries and more than 1,000 visitors from India linked to a recent film sequence featuring the event.